Petkovic: The Bolivia match was full of lessons – New Algeria

The coach of the Algerian national football team, Vladimir Petkovic, confirmed that the match that the “Greens” played, yesterday evening, Friday, against Bolivia, was full of lessons.

Andhad won The national team defeated its Bolivian counterpart, with a score of three goals to two, yesterday evening, Friday, at the “Nelson Mandela” Stadium in Baraki, for the first round of the Algeria International Football Tournament “FIFA Serie 2024”.

Petkovic said, in Press conference What followed the match: “We entered the match in a good way, as we quickly tried to control the course of the game and create offensive opportunities, but our effectiveness in front of goal failed us in many opportunities.”

The new national voter added: “We performed well in the first half, opened the scoring, and ran the game in a good way until a mistake was made by the defense at the beginning of the second half, which cost us the equalizer.”

Petkovic indicated that he came away from yesterday’s match with several positive and negative points about the performance of the Algerian national team, so that he stated, “We have several open workshops waiting for us, where we will work to correct the mistakes we committed today evening so that we can avoid conceding goals in the upcoming matches.”

He continued: “The second workshop that we will work on is the mental aspect, which is important to avoid making mistakes, as we must be ready to manage all possible situations during the matches.”

The Bosnian-Croat coach continued, saying: “One of the positive points that we extracted from this friendly match is the positive addition given by the new young men, as they provided the necessary solutions and contributed to turning the result in our favor and achieving victory, and this is reassuring for the rest of the journey.” Among the negative points that we identified in the second half was that we left spaces for the advantage of the opposing team, which made it numerically superior in many playing situations. In general, this first interview was full of lessons, which will make us prepare to face South Africa in good conditions.”

Petkovic is called upon to confirm against the South Africana

The Algeria International Tournament was “FIFA Siri 2024“It opened, the day before yesterday, Thursday, with a match between the national teams of South Africa and Andorra, which took place at the “May 19, 1956” stadium, in the city of Annaba and ended with a result. Tie (1-1).

The second round of the tournament will be known as a confrontation between Bolivia and Andorra next Monday, in Annaba, and another between Algeria and South Africa next Tuesday, in Baraki.